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(No Model.)

J. A. BRITTAIN.

RUBBER SHOE.

No. 461,310. Patented 0011.13, 1891.

ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

JAMES A. BRITTAIN, OF LEADVILLE, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, AUGUST P. WVILLY, AND MEOK H. STACY, OF SAME PLACE.

RUBBER SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 461,310, dated October 13, 1891.

Application filed June 11, 1891.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES A. BRITTAIN, o Leadville, in the county of Lake and State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful Improveme'nt in Rubber and other Like Shoes, of which the following is a full. clear, and ex actdescription.

This invention is designed to be applied to ladies, mens, and childrens shoes or overthe upper marginal open part of the shoe and to insure a close yet elastic fit of the shoe at said part, and will prevent, especially in the cheaper qualities of rubberjshoes, the tearing of the rubber down the sides of the shoe,while by its use in fine qualities of shoes the ordinary steel shank, which is objectionableQmay be dispensed with.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

Serial No. 395,964. (No model.).

in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 represents a longitudinalslde View of a rubber shoe partly broken away at its top to show the metal spring which is inserted within and around said part of the shoe, and Fig. 2 aplan View of the same with the upper part or margin of the shoe also partly broken away or interrupted to expose the spring therein.

- A indicates the body of the shoe, and b its top opening for insertion and removal of the foot. Around the marginal portion of this opening, open top, or mout-hof the shoe, which part is doubled or turned over upon itself, I insert a continuous metal spring substantially as and for the, purpose or purposes hereinbet'ore specified.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an improved article of manufacture, a rubber shoe having the usual foot-opening I), the upper edge of theshoe around the opening being unbroken, and a continuous or endless metal spring embedded within said upper edge, substantially as set forth.

JAMES A. BRITTAIN.

Vitnesses:

JOHN A. EWING, CHARLES F. BO LING. 

